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Enhance CCTV surveillance at shelter homes for children: Gorhe

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Published on Apr 17, 2025 12:43 PM IST

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Lucknow shelter home authorities claim full cooperation in probe

Probe team constituted by DM has taken statements of all shelter workers, including the founder; post-mortem of four children completed

Nirvan Rajkiya Bal Griha Visheshikrit is a shelter home for children with special needs in Lucknow. (FILE PHOTO)

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Published on Mar 31, 2025 04:50 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Lucknow

Lucknow shelter home: Choked sewers, waterlogging behind water contamination?

Lucknow officials investigate the deaths of five children at a rehab centre, focusing on sewage issues and testing food and water samples for safety.

Food and water samples have also been sent for testing, and results of all are awaited. (Sourced)

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Published on Mar 30, 2025 04:50 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Lucknow

KGMU relocates last two destitute patients to shelter home after years of waiting

KGMU spokesperson Dr Sudhir Singh, after reviewing decades-old hospital records, revealed that these patients were brought in by police personnel along with a court order mandating the hospital to admit them.

The Lawaris Vipanna Scheme, designed specifically for destitute patients, provides free treatment up to <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>10,000, with the possibility of extensions if needed (FOR REPRESENTATION)

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Published on Feb 11, 2025 09:14 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Lucknow

NMMC releases contacts of 2 officers for moving homeless to its shelter

Navi Mumbaikars can now help the homeless with a phone call to NMMC's shelter, which accommodates 103 people. Contact details provided for assistance.

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Updated on Sep 12, 2024 07:54 AM IST

BySameera Kapoor Munshi

One more inmate of Indore children's shelter home dies; toll rises to 11

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Published on Aug 06, 2024 10:49 PM IST

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Delhi govt panel says Asha Kiran shelter home facing staff crunch

Delhi's Asha Kiran shelter home for intellectually challenged faces staff shortage, inadequate care. Committee urges LG to address issues promptly.

Kuldeep Kumar, a member of the committee, said in a press conference at the Delhi assembly that they were told about the staff crunch by officials of the shelter home. (HT photo)

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Updated on Aug 06, 2024 05:52 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi

‘Fungus-laden food’: NCW chief on Asha Kiran shelter home deaths

NCW chief Rekha Sharma blamed contaminated water, fungal food and lack of proper medicine in Delhi's Asha Kiran home for the death of women and children

National Commission for Women chief Rekha Sharma inspected Delhi's Asha Kiran home where 14 deaths had been recorded in the last month due to contaminated water and fungal food (Photo by Vipin Kumar/ Hindustan Times)(Hindustan Times)

india news

Published on Aug 02, 2024 06:20 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

5 shelter home children die of cholera in MP’s Indore: Officials

Speaking to media persons, a district administration official who is part of the probe committee said that the children had complained of diarrhoea and dehydration on June 27 but it was not taken seriously

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Published on Jul 04, 2024 07:25 PM IST

ByShruti Tomar

Amid sweltering heat Noida authority brings up shelter home, new work hours

Working hours for labourers and employees engaged in outdoor duties have also been changed, in the light of rising temperatures in the district

The shelter home was opened on Thursday for the destitute at Sector 21A near Noida Stadium and can serve around 60 people. (HT Photo)

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Updated on May 31, 2024 06:40 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

State to ensure well being of juveniles in shelter homes:HC

The petitioner had submitted that three inmates of the said shelter home got pregnant, and some of them were subjected to child labour

“Let a copy of this order be sent to the director, department of women and child welfare by the senior registrar of this court,” the court ordered. (File Photo)

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Updated on Apr 26, 2024 05:52 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Two minor girls flee Delhi correction home

Investigators found out that the girls climbed a tree close to the boundary wall and then used a cloth to scale the wall and go to the other side

The shelter home currently inhabits over 80 girls who are “children in need of care and protection (CNCP)”. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Dec 02, 2023 05:30 AM IST

ByHemani Bhandari

ADM to probe deaths of 2babies born to teen mothers housed in govt shelter home

According to protocol, an investigation into the reason behind their untimely death is going to be carried out, wherein the doctors who treated the children, the mothers of the babies who are now housed in the shelter home in Para, as well as the shelter home authorities will have to present their statements and related documents.

The babies died within three days of each other in late September. (Pic for representation)

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Updated on Oct 22, 2023 08:02 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Social media abuzz again after Atiq’s sons are back home

Ahzam and Abaan have returned from Child Protection Home at Rajruppur after spending over seven months there

Atiq Ahmed’s sons being released from child protection home recently. (HT)

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Updated on Oct 12, 2023 07:28 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Prayagraj

Three disabled minors raped at Kolkata’s shelter home, 3 held: Police

Three people were arrested in connection with the rape of at least three visually impaired minors in a shelter home in Kolkata

Three arrested in connection with rape of at least three visually impaired girls in a shelter home in Kolkata. (Representative Image)

india news

Updated on Sep 09, 2023 01:19 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Kolkata

Delhi HC grants same-sex interfaith couple security

Justice Bhatnagar directed the local SHO and a beat constable to provide their contacts to the couple and respond if a distress call was made

According to the petition, the partners are Hindu and Muslim and both are above 18 years of age.(AP representative image)

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Updated on Jun 02, 2023 11:49 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Celebrate Shelter Pets Day: 5 reasons to adopt pets from animal shelters

Adopt a pet from shelters and give a fur baby their new home. Check out five amazing benefits of adopting pets from animal shelters.

All animals deserve love and a good, healthy life. Adoption gives you a chance to do the right thing for fur babies and give them the love that's been missing in their life.(Unspalsh)

lifestyle

Published on Dec 04, 2022 07:23 PM IST

ByAkanksha Agnihotri, Delhi

Winter shelters for the homeless: Don’t cut corners

The problem of homeless people and shelters is symptomatic of a larger problem: The lack of adequate and safe housing.

For the last few days, the northwestern part of India has been in the grip of a cold wave or severe cold wave conditions. This situation is likely to continue in the National Capital Region for the next three days.(REUTERS)

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Published on Dec 30, 2020 07:54 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Class 10 student drugged by sister, forced into prostitution: Police

In her statement registered with the police, the minor said she was raped for the first time two years ago when she was just 13 years old

Police arrested seven people, including the girl’s 20-year-old sister, a man and his two sons on Sunday.(REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

india news

Updated on Dec 20, 2020 05:37 PM IST

Bhopal, Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

‘Love jihad’ charge fake, admin behind miscarriage: UP woman

Jahan was the first woman detained under the UP Prohibition Of Unlawful Conversion Of Religion Ordinance 2020, which outlaws religious conversions by marriage, coercion or enticement.

The girl being questioned by members of saffron brigade in presence of policemen. (HT Photo)

india news

Updated on Dec 16, 2020 02:11 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Meerut | ByS Raju

Woman detained under UP’s new law against ‘love jihad’ suffers miscarriage

Muskan Jahan (Hindu name Pinki) is also the first woman detained under UP prohibition of unlawful conversion of religion ordinance 2020. She had converted to Islam after marrying a Muslim.

india news

Updated on Dec 13, 2020 11:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Meerut | ByS Raju

Teenager’s ordeal: Brother, high on drugs, raped her last year

In her statement to the police, the Class 9 student said she was sexually exploited by her brother, the sole earning member of the family, in December 2019.

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Updated on Sep 24, 2020 10:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByShailee Dogra, Chandigarh

ED files charge sheet against man accused of abuse in Bihar shelter home

The investigation was initiated under the provisions of PMLA based on two FIRs registered by Mahila Police Station, Muzaffarpur, and an FIR lodged by CBI Patna

The agency has sought that the man’s movable and immovable properties worth Rs 8.8 crore, which have already been attached, be confiscated.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 27, 2020 04:31 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

British man running Odisha shelter home arrested for sexually abusing minor

Police officials in Jharsuguda said John Patrick Bridge - who ran a child shelter home called Faith Outreach - was arrested following a complaint by a minor tribal boy about being sexually abused.

File photo of John Patrick Bridge, who founded home shelter Faith Outreach. (HT Photo)

india news

Updated on Aug 20, 2020 12:50 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | ByHT Correspondent

23, including 8 kids, test Covid-19 positive in shelter home for mentally challenged

According to officials at the shelter home, of the 23 inmates who tested Covid-19 positive between June 5 and June 20, eight are children in the age group of 11-13, seven are adult inmates and the remaining are staffers.

The shelter home run, by the Delhi government’s social welfare department, houses 960 inmates but only has the capacity for 550.(PTI (Representative))

india news

Updated on Jun 29, 2020 06:47 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByVatsala Shrangi

Owners abandon Char Dham pack animals in Uttarakhand as lockdown bites

Animal rights activists in the state are trying to raise funds to rehabilitate these animals by their owners who are pout of work after the Char Dham yatra was cancelled.

Donkeys rescued from streets in Dehradun feeding at a shelter home on Chakrata Road.(HT PHOTO)

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Published on May 05, 2020 09:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Dehradun | BySuparna Roy

Rules for movement of stranded persons issued by Delhi government

The SOP document, which HT has seen, stated that the additional district magistrates and additional district commissioners of police “shall register such stranded persons” and prepare the database.

Workers arrive to catch a bus to travel to their home states, in Prayagraj.(AP)

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Updated on May 04, 2020 04:15 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAbhishek Dey, New Delhi

Stranded migrants in Delhi wait in desperation as admin readies transportation plans

The official added that while trains are a better mode of transport with respect to social distancing protocol in mind, private buses will have to be hired for workers who want to travel to shorter distances.

Tens and thousands of migrant workers who could not return to their home states because of the national lockdown, imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, are awaiting government guidelines on transportation.

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Updated on May 03, 2020 02:48 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByVatsala Shrangi and Anvit Srivastava

In Delhi, pets abandoned, strays face cruelty due to Covid fear

Members of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and activists say that instances of pets, mainly dogs and cats, being abandoned during the lockdown have gone up significantly, with most winding up at shelter homes.

A man feeds stray dogs at a park in New Delhi.

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Updated on Apr 30, 2020 03:55 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByBaishali Adak, New Delhi

Following MHA order, 200-odd migrants at shelter homes in Chandigarh, P’kula look forward to going back home

It has been a month since 500-odd migrant labourers walking back to their native places on foot, owing to the mass exodus amid the Covid-19 lockdown, were housed at shelters homes in Chandigarh and Panchkula. So far, 10 migrants from Chandigarh, and 336 from Panchkula, have gone back to their homes after authorities tied-up with their respective states.

Migrant workers eating lunch at a temporary shelter home in Sector 20, Panchkula.(SANT ARORA/HT)

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Published on Apr 29, 2020 11:12 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByYuvraj Kaushal and Srishti Jaswal, Chandigarh

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Enhance CCTV surveillance at shelter homes for children: Gorhe

Probe team constituted by DM has taken statements of all shelter workers, including the founder; post-mortem of four children completed

Lucknow officials investigate the deaths of five children at a rehab centre, focusing on sewage issues and testing food and water samples for safety.

KGMU spokesperson Dr Sudhir Singh, after reviewing decades-old hospital records, revealed that these patients were brought in by police personnel along with a court order mandating the hospital to admit them.

Navi Mumbaikars can now help the homeless with a phone call to NMMC's shelter, which accommodates 103 people. Contact details provided for assistance.

One more inmate of Indore children's shelter home dies; toll rises to 11

Delhi's Asha Kiran shelter home for intellectually challenged faces staff shortage, inadequate care. Committee urges LG to address issues promptly.

NCW chief Rekha Sharma blamed contaminated water, fungal food and lack of proper medicine in Delhi's Asha Kiran home for the death of women and children

Speaking to media persons, a district administration official who is part of the probe committee said that the children had complained of diarrhoea and dehydration on June 27 but it was not taken seriously

Working hours for labourers and employees engaged in outdoor duties have also been changed, in the light of rising temperatures in the district

The petitioner had submitted that three inmates of the said shelter home got pregnant, and some of them were subjected to child labour

Investigators found out that the girls climbed a tree close to the boundary wall and then used a cloth to scale the wall and go to the other side

Ahzam and Abaan have returned from Child Protection Home at Rajruppur after spending over seven months there

Three people were arrested in connection with the rape of at least three visually impaired minors in a shelter home in Kolkata

Justice Bhatnagar directed the local SHO and a beat constable to provide their contacts to the couple and respond if a distress call was made

Adopt a pet from shelters and give a fur baby their new home. Check out five amazing benefits of adopting pets from animal shelters.

The problem of homeless people and shelters is symptomatic of a larger problem: The lack of adequate and safe housing.

In her statement registered with the police, the minor said she was raped for the first time two years ago when she was just 13 years old

Jahan was the first woman detained under the UP Prohibition Of Unlawful Conversion Of Religion Ordinance 2020, which outlaws religious conversions by marriage, coercion or enticement.

Muskan Jahan (Hindu name Pinki) is also the first woman detained under UP prohibition of unlawful conversion of religion ordinance 2020. She had converted to Islam after marrying a Muslim.

In her statement to the police, the Class 9 student said she was sexually exploited by her brother, the sole earning member of the family, in December 2019.

The investigation was initiated under the provisions of PMLA based on two FIRs registered by Mahila Police Station, Muzaffarpur, and an FIR lodged by CBI Patna

Police officials in Jharsuguda said John Patrick Bridge - who ran a child shelter home called Faith Outreach - was arrested following a complaint by a minor tribal boy about being sexually abused.

According to officials at the shelter home, of the 23 inmates who tested Covid-19 positive between June 5 and June 20, eight are children in the age group of 11-13, seven are adult inmates and the remaining are staffers.

Animal rights activists in the state are trying to raise funds to rehabilitate these animals by their owners who are pout of work after the Char Dham yatra was cancelled.

The SOP document, which HT has seen, stated that the additional district magistrates and additional district commissioners of police “shall register such stranded persons” and prepare the database.

The official added that while trains are a better mode of transport with respect to social distancing protocol in mind, private buses will have to be hired for workers who want to travel to shorter distances.

Members of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and activists say that instances of pets, mainly dogs and cats, being abandoned during the lockdown have gone up significantly, with most winding up at shelter homes.

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